Sec. 4. Study of barriers to administration in high housing cost areas
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The Secretaries of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs, in consultation with the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, shall jointly conduct a study to identify barriers to carrying out the HUD–VASH supported housing program under section 8(o)(19) of the United States Housing Act of 1937 in areas having high housing costs. Such study shall— be carried out with respect to not less than 15 housing market areas used for purposes of fair market rents established under the rental assistance program under section 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 ( 42 U.S.C. 1437f ), as selected by such Secretaries, that— have high rates of veterans experiencing homelessness, as identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; have high housing costs, as identified by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; have at least one public housing agency and one medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs located within the area; and include housing market areas for which fair market rents are calculated using the Small Area Fair Market Rents and include housing areas that are not calculated using such rents; for each housing market area covered by the study, collect data with respect to only one public housing agency and one medical center of the Department of Veterans Affairs located in the area; and identify for such high housing cost areas— the average amount of time elapsed between a veteran receiving a voucher for rental assistance under the program and signing a lease for a residence to be assisted using such voucher; administrative burdens to the use of project-based voucher assistance under such program, including any State and local regulations that make project-based vouchers more difficult to use; ways in which public housing agencies leverage private resources with public funds under such program and difficulties developers may experience under such program in the use of project-based vouchers; how public housing agencies and medical centers of the Department of Veterans Affairs define the term unused vouchers ; the process for reallocation of any such unused vouchers; and any best practices for administration of vouchers under the program in such high housing cost areas.
Not later than the expiration of the 12-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall jointly submit to the Congress a report setting forth the findings of the study under subsection
(a)and any recommendations resulting from such study.
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